Rent Debtors Strike Against Abusive Corporate Landlord

The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

Supreme Court Opens With CasesTesting Constitutionality

The major cases in October and November address the role of race in elections, conversion therapy and the Trump tariffs. Later cases include campaign finance and transgender sports.

UN Commissioner Trump’s Plan Breaches International Law

Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached

SCOTUS Wades Back Into the War on Trans Kids

Scotus is considering Greenlighting Conversion therapy. The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ “treatments” are ineffective and dangerous.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 7, 2025

Repression and resistance

Bad Bunny Destroys MAGA Backlash During SNL

“If You Don’t Understand Me, You Have Four Months To Learn”

A Federal Judge Shows How To Deal With Trump’s Lies

District Court Judge Karin Immergut – a Trump appointee – issued an opinion that shows courage in judging, without rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 8–14, 2025

French soldier on foot in Vietnam in front of a U.S.-supplied tank
Vietnam’s Slippery Slope (1950), History-Changing Hurricane (1780), Saying ‘No’ to Real Un-Americans (1960), Live, from New York! (1975), The Army Against Civilians Isn’t New (1925), Deer Island or Devil’s Island? (1675), She Sure Had Rhythm! (1930)

Behind Trump: Decades of Counterterrorism Policy

Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.

Potential Changes to SS Disability Insurance

The anticipated regulation could reduce eligibility for new applicants to the SSDI program by as much as 20 percent overall, and up to 30 percent among older workers, 10% reduction could result in 500,000 people losing access over 10 years.
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Go See One Battle After Another Right Now

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians.

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The Story of White People

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Poet Tony Hoagland commemorates the transition from innocence to knowledge, from privilege to guilt.

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MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA

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The nation’s most prominent — and most politically active — women’s pro sports league is on a collision course with Donald Trump.

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Gaza Has Sparked Italy’s Biggest Protests in Years

Jacopo Custodi Jacobin
Today’s general strike in Italy paralyzed transport and brought two million people into the streets. Even after years of setbacks for organized labor, it staged a historic protest in solidarity with Palestine.

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Labor Relations in Germany – Three Snapshots

Thomas Klikauer Z Network
German labor relations aren’t dead. Workers are fighting – in courts, in meat factories, in airports. These workers will not surrender. Whatever dirty tactics management throws at them – they stand firm.

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Paige Gebhardt Cognetti Political Ad

The mayor of Scranton, PA, announces a run for a key swing Congressional seat with a blistering message about inherited privilege and economic inequality.

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Epstein Update Rocks Trump World

Trump’s Epstein problem just got much worse, with accusations from a top Trump official. Plus the latest on the Republican shutdown.

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Bombshell Development in the Epstein Scandal

When Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of Congress next week, she will be the crucial 218th vote to force a vote on release of the Epstein files. What comes next?